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sirtoby

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  1. Why bother with the t460 when you can join the X220 circlejerk?
  2. I doubt that there will be any more CPU's for FM2+. It's been out 3 years now, so I expect the next generation APU's to be based on Zen and to run on a new Chipset. AMD has released a few ned APU's for FM2+ in Febuary, but those are just the old architecture with some go faster stripes.
  3. The 191£ seems to have been either a mistake or a limited quantity offer, as It now costs 229£. As the £ is weak at the moment, keep looking in British shops. Buying from Europe in general is a good idea, as shipping costs less than the from the USA and is quicker.
  4. It'll be ~325$, but I've no idea if Amazon calculates the import fees correctly. If you want to buy it, then go ahead. The Pound has lost a lot of value due to Brexit. Keep in mind that the warranty might require you to ship it back to the UK for RMA
  5. The pound has lost value, but it's still worth more than the €.
  6. Does anyone know why Chevrolet didn't put their badge on the station wagon Commodore? Would be great to get them in LHD...
  7. Oh you're underestimating German bureaucracy. The item value has to be declared on the outside of the package. If this is the case then DHL should in theory write you a bill for the import tax and vat. I've had around 20 packages from the US and that never happened. I always had to drive to the next customs office to collect my stuff and to pay tax. No matter how clearly the item value was declared on the outside of the package. Once, an American friend sent me a box full of sweets and all sorts of unhealthy goodness, which was marked as a gift. We were in this fucking customs office for an hour because they wanted the bill for the items.
  8. I don't know about your customs office, but german customs doesn't give a shit if you write gift on the package or not. I've tried this several times and alsways hat to pay import tax + vat
  9. You're fine. The CX PSU's aren't great, but they'll do the job. People who are putting it on the same level as a 15$ ebay supply are morons.
  10. http://www.moddiy.com/products/Acer-PSU-Main-Power-24%252dPin-to-12%252dPin-Adapter-Cable-(30cm).html (15$ with free intl. shipping) This is the cable I'd go with. There seem to be none in the UK available, so you'll have to wait the week or so it takes to ship. The alternative would be to buy a new motherboard. You technically could also hack the adapter together yourself, but I would not recommend this, unless you have a lot of experience with power supplies.
  11. On board audio is pretty good these days. Unless you have high impedance headphones or speakers that cost a grand each, you won't hear much of a difference. The Asus board will probably allow you more customization, as the Gigabyte one uses a soundblaster chip, and the Soundblaster software isn't particularly feature rich.
  12. Have you force restarted it? If that didn't help, then head to the Apple store. Apples support is amazing when you're still in warranty (which you are).
  13. I would avoid these sites. They fuck over indie developers in a big way.
  14. That was what I was referring to. I don't know if you're supposed to deliver a complete program, or if it is enough if you just put the numbers into the code and let it run in free pascal. I haven't dealt with Pascal so far, but read/readln seems to be the right command. Maybe this helps you on how to use it https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Pascal_Programming/Input_and_Output
  15. Al right, so here's what I'd do: You have an IP-address; 4 blocks, each of which consists of a number between 0 and 255. Instead of trying to handle them all together, split them up. For example, you could put them in an array. You could also assign a variable to each of the four numbers. //Example //IP is 192.168.189.23 // Array [192 168 189 23] //Variables Number1 = 192 Number2 = 168 Number3 = 189 Number4 = 23 Use whatever you are most comfortable with using. I don't know how you're supposed to present this, but in the most basic form it'd look something like this (Syntax is not correct) //IP address is 1.2.3.4 Var1 = 1 Bin1 Var2 = 2 Bin2 Var3 = 3 Bin3 Var4 = 4 Bin4 //convert Var1-4 into binary, maybe additional variables are neccessary to store the binary numbers Print out ("You converted " Var1 "." Var2 "." Var3 "." Var4 "into" Bin1 "." Bin2 "." Bin3 "." Bin4)
  16. Did you already learn about arrays?
  17. How? Isn't shadowplay supposed to run on the GPU's h.264 encoder? Maybe because of the additional file transfer, or your laptop is a bit weird. I've got a 960M in mine and I don't see any temperature rise...
  18. Right, so what problems do you have? Where to start? How to convert from decimal to binary?
  19. Sometimes it's not only about performance. Shadowplay is an easy to use solution, needs barely any configuring and allow you to save the last 20 min of your gameplay with the press of a button. I also find GForce Experience to be a nice to have feature as it makes driver updates simple and helps you to intially set up the settings for games. OP, if you're willed to do a bit of work to configure OBS and don't need GF experience, then by all means go with the 380(X). You'll get more performance for the same price as the 960. I just find the 960 to be a more "out of the box" solution for which you pay with less performance compared to AMD's offer
  20. Your friend should be fine with an i5.Also, USB ports are important. A typical scenario would need at least three usb ports (Soundcard,DJ Controller, external harddrive). Hubs aren't very reliable and generally annoying. You need to get a bit more info though. Should it be used for anything else (does he need a dedicated gpu)? How big of a screen does he want?
  21. Maybe talk to your friend again, because he isn't going to carry a PC around with him Also ask him what dj controller he has (if he has one). They usually have a soundcard build in, so you don't have to buy one.
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